Dr. Curtis "C.J." Gilliam [1922-1995] was a longtime Civil Rights activist and the first black optometrist in Baton Rouge. A former president of the Baton Rouge chapter of the NAACP, he was the first black Louisianan to enlist in the U.S. Marine...

Postcard: "Community Club, Baton Rouge, La." Published by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee. Postmarked April 25, 1927, New Orleans." Once located on the corner of St. Anthony St. (now 7th and Florida Boulevard).